“Perhaps even when I am dead, some browser in libraries will come upon me, and, seeing that I was not altogether unworthy, will resurrect me from the dust of things forgotten.”

A quiet hope for posterity rather than present fame · Journal

• Memory
• Posterity
• Writers

“If, in an hour of noble elation, I could write a bit of glorified prose that would soften the stern ways of life, and bring to our fevered days some courage, dignity and poise—I should be well-content.”

States his modest hope for what writing might do for ordinary lives · Journal, 1922

• Courage
• Purpose
• Writing

“Religion is the bread of the soul. The best Christianity of today has abandoned the metaphysics of the Bible, but clings to the ethical teachings of Jesus—love, brotherhood, and service—which are the hope of the world.”

Separates ethical religion from disputed doctrine · Journal

• Faith
• Morality
• Religion