Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.

Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

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

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

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.