Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

The final mystery is oneself.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Let me say to you now that to do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.