Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.