Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

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