The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.