There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

One real world is enough.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.