Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

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

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.