I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies; but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.