Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.