Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.