The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we ca…