If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp.

The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. 'I am no such thing,' it would say; 'I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.