Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

An operation that eventually kills may be technically successful, and the man may die cured; and so a description of religion thatshowed it to be madness might first show how real and warm it was, so that if it perished, at least it would perish understood.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.