The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.

Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.

Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.