Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.