"Is there not a teaching of nature very apt to suggest horror and despair rather than a complacent brooding over sooth…"

"Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens."

"Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do ho…"

"Philistine – a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word…"

"A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience. Modern society is too vast and too restless to …"

"If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is…"

"The doctrine of toleration requires a positive as well as a negative statement. It is not only wrong to burn a man on…"

"Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out t…"

"He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view."

"The fool who does not know his own folly may be doing nothing, and the philosopher who is trying to darken knowledge …"