The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

Fear first created the gods.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.