Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.