The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.