Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

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.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.