It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.

All created things are impermanent. Strive on with diligence.

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are longlasting and not of this world.

To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.

I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking.