Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

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.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!