In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

My books are friends that never fail me.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.