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

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

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.