What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.