All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.