The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.