It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.