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.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.