Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.