Oaths are the fossils of piety.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

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.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Spirit itself is not human; it may spring up in any life... it may exist in all animals, and who know in how many undreamt-of beings, or in the midst of what worlds?

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.