To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

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.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.