Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

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

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.