Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

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

Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.