Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

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

It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.