An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what it is that you secretly love.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.