Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.