Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Certain I am that every author who has written a book with earnest forethought and fondly cherished designs will bear testimony to the fact that much which he meant to convey has never been guessed at in any review of his work; and many a delicate beauty of thought, on which he principally valued himself, remains, like the statue of Isis, an image of truth from which no hand lifts the veil.

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.