“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”

“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”

“Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”

“Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...”

“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible”

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ”

“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”