Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.