In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it. The Blind Owl

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying. Heartbreak House

That science is incapable of solving in its own way those fundamental questions is no sufficient reason for slighting them History as a System

In this present life, I reckon that we make the nearest approach to knowledge when we have the least possible concern or interest in the body, and are not saturated with the bodily nature, but remain pure until the hour when God himself is pleased to release us. And then the foolishness of the body will be cleared away and we shall be pure and hold converse with othe pure souls, and know of ourselves the clear light everywhere; and this is surely the light of truth. For no impure thing is allowed to approach the pure. These are the sort of words, Simmias, which the true lovers of wisdom cannot help saying to one another, and thinking. The Trials Of Socrates