What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

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

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

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.