Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

To the mean all becomes mean.

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts