Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
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.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
My dear, we live in an age of transition.
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words “my country” may evoke.
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
There are no rewards or punishments – only consequences.