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

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty.

Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence