It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

In each of us there is a little of all of us.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

God: personified incomprehensibility.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.