Friendship buys friendship.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.