And we forget because we must and not because we will.

Religion--that voice of the deepest human experience.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.... He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.