“If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.”

“Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.”

“Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.”

“Thus is man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in diverse elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds.”

“The fact is those root-truths on which the foundations of our being rest, are apprehended not logically at all, but mystically. This faculty of spiritual apprehension, which is a very different one from those which are trained in schools and colleges, must be educated and fed, not less, but more carefully than our lower faculties, else it will be starved and die, however learned and able in other respects we may become.”

“Most often we are judging not others, but rather our own faculties in others.”

“Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.”

“It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.”

“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?”

“Indeed, all idealism derives from Descartes, or from Kant, or from both together, and whatever other distinguishing features a system may have, it is idealist to the extent that, either in itself, or as far as we are concerned, it makes knowing the condition of being.”