"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."

"The muffled syllables that Nature speaksFill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,She makes a sweeter music than is heard."

"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."

"In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity."

"The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art."

"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."

"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."

"Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway."

"Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."

"Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence."

"One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human."

"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists."

"For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity."

"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."

"The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive."

"If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them."

"Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth."

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable, what it is or what it means can never be said."

"It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility."

"Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body."

"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."

"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor."

"Depression is rage spread thin."

"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."

"The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its total temper. To deny this would seem impossible, yet it is done daily; for there is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition; and candor and a sense of justice are, in such a case, the first things lost."

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

"Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others."

"Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."

"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."

"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."

"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."

"Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions."

"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."

"Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."

"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."

"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests."

"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different."

"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

"Consciousness is a born hermit."

"The man who is not permitted to own is owned."

"The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape."

"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."

"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."

"Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."

"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."