Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.