Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.