It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

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.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.