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

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.