Heaven is to be at peace with things.

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

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

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much.

Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.