As new discoveries are causing all-penetrating physical lights so to abound as that, as has been said, we shall soon not know where in the world to get any darkness, so our new facilities for every sort of communication work to reduce privacy much within its former limits.

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better taught by making spiritual things the objects of supreme desire, than by commanding an ostentatious avoidance of the enjoyments of life.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

We do not believe in immortality because we can't prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.