Sublime

The difficulty is simply this: that if it comes to claiming exceptional treatment, the very people who will claim it will be those who least deserve it.

That is the mark of the truly great man: that he sees the common man afar off, and worships him.

The morality of a great writer is not the morality he teaches, but the morality he takes for granted.

It is the question of whether in these days the claims of government are to leave anything whatever of the rights of man.

Gus Levy was a nice guy. He was also a regular fellow.

SPINOZA (1634-77) is the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers. Intellectually, some others have surpassed him, but ethically he is supreme.

The first and most striking feature is a stupidity that rises into a sort of ghastly innocence.