Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.