It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.