All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.