Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.

I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself.