The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.