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

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

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.

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

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.