A friend's only gift is himself.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.