It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.