If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.