Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

Docility is the observable half of reason.