Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.