No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
Mystery is not profoundness.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.