You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?