The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.