The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.

What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

Every joy is beyond all others.

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.