Emotion is primarily about nothing, and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity heresy anomalies, hobbies, and humours.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

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

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginative fitness of its faith.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.