The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.