If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

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

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people.