The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.