[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.