It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.