Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

I am the Spirit that denies.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.

Wisdom is found only in truth.