As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.