It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.