We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.