All our knowledge is symbolic.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!