 Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. |
| A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. |
| It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. |
| Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. |
| Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. |
| To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. |
| The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. |
| It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. |
| The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. |
| In Greece wise men speak and fools decide. |
| The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. |
| The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. |
| It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. |
| By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. |
| Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. |
| Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. |
| Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. |
| Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. |
| To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired. |
| The wisest mind has something yet to learn. |
