Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.