The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.