Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.