The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.