None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.