We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and the farthest point to which man can stretch himself.

American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.