He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

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

Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.