Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.