Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.