Perfect Discipline Requires Recognition Of Infallibility. Infallibility

There Is More Respect To Be Won In The Opinion Of This World By A Resolute And Courageous Liquidation Of Unsound Positions Than By The Most Stubborn Pursuit Of Extravagant Or Unpromising Objectives.

A Guest Of One's Time And Not A Member Of The Household.

World Communism Is Like [a] Malignant Parasite Which Feeds On Diseased Tissue

I Lived, Particularly In Childhood But With Lessening Intensity Right On To Middle Age, In A World That Was Peculiarly And Intimately My Own, Scarcely To Be Shared With Others Or Even Made Plausible To Them. I Habitually Read Special Meanings Into Things, Scenes And Places Qualities Of Wonder, Beauty, Promise, Or Horror For Which There Was No External Evidence Visible Or Plausible To Others. My World Was Peopled With Mysteries, Seductive Hints, Vague Menaces, "intimations Of Immortality.

The United States Cannot Reshape Other Countries In Its Own Image And That, With A Few Exceptions, Its Efforts To Police The World Are Neither In Its Interests Nor Within The Scope Of Its Resources. This Whole Tendency To See Ourselves As The Center Of Political Enlightenment And As Teachers To A Great Part Of The Rest Of The World Strikes Me As Unthought-through, Vainglorious And Undesirable.