Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

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

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

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.