A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

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

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.