We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

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.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

War? War is an organized bore.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.