If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.