"The last act is bloody, however fine all the rest of the play, — at the last a little earth is thrown upon our head, and that is the end forever."

"We never love a person, but only qualities."

"Man is so great that his greatness is known even in his knowing himself to be miserable."

"The will is one of the chief organs of belief, not because it creates belief, but because things are either true or false according to the side on which we look at them."

"Reason's last step is to recognize that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it."