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.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!