Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

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.