The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.