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.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

Heaven is to be at peace with things.