We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.