Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.