The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

One real world is enough.