We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to wo...
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.
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
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.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends the part known gives us evidence enough...
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility.
Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.