Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.