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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them, he will still feel as the famous woman did about ghosts, Je n'y crois pas, mais je les crains,—"I don't believe in them, but I am afraid of them, nevertheless".

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

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.