Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

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

... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

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

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.