Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.

The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul's best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.