The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

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.