I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.