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

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.