Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.