In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.