The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.