Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.