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

Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.