In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.