We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect...

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

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.