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

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

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.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.