The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.