Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.