Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.