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

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

America is a young country with an old mentality.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.