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.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.