Fierce sectarianism breeds fierce latitudinarianism.

The burden of the incommunicable.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.

The public is a bad guesser.