In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

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

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.