Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.