The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

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.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.