As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.