Beware of long arguments and long beards.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.