Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.