“Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.”
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!