Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

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

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.