Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

New occasions teach new duties.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.