The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

Any attempt to speak without speaking any particular language is not more hopeless than the attempt to have a religion that shall be no religion in particular.... Every living and healthy religion has a marked idiosyncrasy. Its power consists in its special and surprising message and the bias which that revelation gives to life.

Art is a delayed echo.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.