The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.