All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.