When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.