For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.