All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.