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

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.

Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them.