The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

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

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.