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

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.