Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

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