"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."
"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."