Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Compliments are only lies in court clothes.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.