It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.