Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.