A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.