When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.