To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.