He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.