Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

The happy people are those who are producing something.