The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.