To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.