Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

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

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

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.