Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.

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

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

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

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.