The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.

This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?