To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

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.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.