By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world; I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.

Popularity is for dolls.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.