Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.