A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the circulation of the idea among the classes which in his judgment are not to be trusted with the idea.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.