The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.