Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.

Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.