Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors nor even in its newspapers or inventors but always most in the common people.

Of all the wonders of nature a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable, with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.