Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

To philosophize means to make vivid.

One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.