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

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

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.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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