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.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.