if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.