All people are most credulous when they are most happy.
Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.
Money is economic power.
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.
But of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.