Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

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