It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

...science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common-sense rounded out and minutely articulated. It is therefore as much an instinctive product, as much a stepping forth of human courage in the dark, as is any inevitable dream or impulsive action.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.