I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.
All truth is profound.
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.
Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.