Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

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

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.