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

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

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

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.