Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.