Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

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

Depression is rage spread thin.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.