One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

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

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice