Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

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

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.