... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one.

Memory... is an internal rumor.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.