The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.

War disorganizes, but it is to reorganize.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!