There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

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.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.