The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.