"Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and then dismiss the matter from your mind. The longer yo…"

"The end justifies the means. But what if the means are so horrible that they corrupt the end?"

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

"You can't be a rationalist in an irrational world. It's a contradiction in terms."

"There is a history in all men's lives, figuring the nature of the times deceased."