Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

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

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.