Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.