People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.