The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.