Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.

Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both.

It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.