There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.