Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

One of the peculiarities of recent speculation, especially in America, is that ideas are abandoned in virtue of a mere change of feeling, without any new evidence or new arguments. We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.