We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

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.

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.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.