A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

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.

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.