We wish the joy of love, the joy of companionship, of being in the company of, in the presence of the person we love, of living a common life with that person, perhaps ultimately the joy of perfect union.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in ways that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.

Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.