Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.