Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

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