The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.