“Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.”

“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.”

“Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual dream of each individual ego? Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.”

“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical ashes. Is the life of mind something like that of great trees of immemorial growth? Is the living layer of consciousness super-imposed upon hundreds of dead layers? Dead? No doubt this is too much to say, but still, when memory is slack the past becomes almost as though it had never been. To remember that we did know once is not a sign of possession but a sign of loss; it is like the number of an engraving which is no longer on its nail, the title of a volume no longer to be found on its shelf. My mind is the empty frame of a thousand vanished images.”

“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”

“A belief is not true because it is useful”

“Dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.”