Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

Those who never have time do least

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?