My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.
Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.