We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying - indeed a rival of the religious life.

All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves.

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.