Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.