Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.