If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.