Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or rather, one might suspect from its length, to the end of all writing-pads then on the market.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.