The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.