Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.