Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not see.

A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or faith. The moment his mere reason moves, it moves in the old circular rut; he will go round and round his logical circle.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.