Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.