Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace. The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humours. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous. Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.