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

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

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

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.