There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

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

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

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.