Liberalism... Is The Noblest Cry That Has

Man's Being Is Made Of Such Strange Stuff As To Be Partly Akin To Nature And Partly Not, At Once Natural And Extranatural, A Kind Of Ontological Centaur, Half Immersed In Nature, Half Transcending It.

The Preoccupation With What Should Be Is Estimable Only When The Respect For What Is Has Been Exhausted.

Beliefs Constitute The Basic Stratum, That Which Lies Deepest, In The Architecture Of Our Life. By Them We Live, And By The Same Token We Rarely Think Of Them.... One May Symbolize The Individual Life As A Bank Of Issue. The Bank Lives On The Credit Of A Gold Reserve Which Is Rarely Seen, Which Lies At The Bottom Of Metal Coffers Hidden In The Vaults Of The Building. The Most Elementary Caution Will Suggest That From Time To Time The Effective Condition Of These Guaranties--of These Credences, One Might Say, That Are The Basis Of Credit--be Passed In Review.

One Age Cannot Be Completely Understood If All The Others Are Not Understood. The Song Of History Can Only Be Sung As A Whole.

The Individual Point Of View Is The Only Point Of View From Which One Is Able To Look At The World In Its Truth.