As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

It is your friends who make your world.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.