Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.