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 passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.