The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at least recognize that we and the Russians are in a common predicament. That would be religious in the sense, "Judge not lest you be judged."

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

We ought to really at least recognize the common predicament of Communists and democrats - or Americans, whatever.