Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.

Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.