A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.