Sublime

The best we deserve or can expect is a Fool who shall be free; and who shall deliver us with laughter.

The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined.

Come down to the nearest decent inhabitable pub. This is a case for beer.”

It is only the Mystic, the man who accepts the contradictions, who can laugh and walk easily through the world.

If any eager freethinker now hails philosophic freedom as the dawn, he is only like the man in Mark Twain who came out wrapped in blankets to see the sun rise and was just in time to see it set.

But I do say, to start with, “What can we do for posterity, except deal fairly with our contemporaries?” Unless a man love his wife whom he has seen, how shall he love his child whom he has not seen?

He feels that nothing is perfect unless it is personal.

mysticism was with him, as with all its genuine professors, only a transcendent form of common sense.

the loss of the freedom of the mind. There can be no liberty of thought unless it is ready to unsettle what has recently been settled, as well as what has long been settled.