Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.