Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

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

It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.