What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.
Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.
Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.