Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part with a decayed illusion are really an infection to the mind.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

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

People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.