The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.