It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.