Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

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

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.