Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

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.

Docility is the observable half of reason.