Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.