Rage is essentially vulgar.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

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.