The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

God hid the whole world in thy heart.