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 theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

There is no dunce like a mature dunce.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.