Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
Space is the stature of God.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.