Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

Christianity has carried civilization along with it, whithersoever it has gone; and, as if to show that the latter does not depend on physical causes, some of the countries the most civilized in the day's of Augustus are now in a state of hopeless barbarism.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.