Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.