- There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
- I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- "My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober".
- Law, when it ceases to be justice, ceases even to be law.
- Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.
- Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
- [on loyalty] We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
- [on neighbors] We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- It is terrible to consider how few politicians are hanged.
- Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
- Men are men, but Man is a Woman.
- The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense.
- Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.
- Never tear down a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place
- Where move in strange Communion the Million Masks of God.
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