A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Docility is the observable half of reason.