The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.