We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.