... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self.

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.