To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Art is a delayed echo.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.