I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.