Effective magic is transcendent nature.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.