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.

Columbus gave the world another world.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.