We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.