There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.