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

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.