Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

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

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise, so to speak,by the mind's inertia and conceptions of things by its activity. Ideas are mental sediment; conceived things are mental growths.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.