Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

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.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.