Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.