The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.