One real world is enough.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic expressions. They stand for experience; experience which we are incapable of retaining and surveying in its multitudinous immediacy. We should flounder hopelessly, like the animals, did we not keep ourselves afloat and direct our course by these intellectual devices. Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of fact.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.