When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and to re-establish themselves alone.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

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

The soul is the voice of the body's interests.

All spiritual interests are supported by animal life.

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

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.