It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Some closing of the gates is inevitable after thirty, if the mind itself is to become a creative power.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.