Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.