Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.