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

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

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

The living have never shown me how to live.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.