The great delusion of mankind is in supposing that to be individual and exceptional which is universal and according to law. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

إنني أعتقد أن هذا الكوكب تضيئه نافذة ذات ألوان، فهنا فرد ينظر من خلال اللون الأزرق، وآخر من خلال اللون الأحمر أو الأصفر، ولكن اللون في الخارج لون أبيض، والذين يرونه على حقيقته إنما هم الذين ينظرون من نافذة مفتوحة

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men, — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. It is in their hearts that the "sentimental" religion some people are so fond of sneering at has its source. The sentiment of love, the sentiment of maternity, the sentiment of the paramount obligation of the parent to the child as having called it into existence, enhanced just in proportion to the power and knowledge of the one and the weakness and ignorance of the other, — these are the "sentiments" that have kept our soulless systems from driving men off to die in holes like those that riddle the sides of the hill opposite the Monastery of St. Saba, where the miserable victims of a falsely-interpreted religion starved and withered in their delusion.