Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.