We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.