I have no axe to grind; only my thoughts to burnish.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

Habit is stronger than reason.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.