If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.