In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

Ending is better than mending.

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.