The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.