Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.