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?

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

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