The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

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

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.