It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.

Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.