I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

Although birds coexist with us on this eroded planet, they live independently of us with a self-sufficiency that is almost a rebuke. In the world of birds a symposium on the purpose of life would be inconceivable. They do not need it. We are not that self-reliant. We are the ones who have lost our way.