In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.