“Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.”

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

“The first is gentleness; the second is economy; and the third is shrinking from taking precedence of others.”

“Thus Betty scraped through a second bitter crisis, one that might have shattered a character more brittle. But she had grown sharp as bile from this, her latest shock, and each passing day increased her edge. Worse, there was no one now to notice her shrinking humanity and cry halt...by turns she would become lightheaded, cackling away like one insane. It was the lightness of one who has nothing more to lose.”

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ”

“The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.”