though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.