When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.