Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.