Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.