“We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out”

“But some of us have been educated by surprises out of much that we were 'absolutely sure' of...”

“I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.”

“When, upon the closed system of normal preoccupations, a story of a sea serpent appears, it is inhospitably treated. To us of the wider cordialities, it has recommendations for kinder reception. I think that we shall be noted in recognitions of good works for our bizarre charities.”

“The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.”

“We shall pick up an existence by its frogs.”

“[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”