A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

Columbus gave the world another world.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.