Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.

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

Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.