Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the mystics of history. You cannot take the region of the unknown and calmly say that, though you know nothing about it, you know all the gates are locked. We do not know enough about the unknown to know that it is unknowable.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.