A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.

Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.