Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

Scholarship is polite argument.

Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.