A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.