The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.