Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.