There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.

All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.