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

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

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.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.