Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.