What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above; nothing enters from heavenard.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.