The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

Often your face is your autobiography

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.