The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.

The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.