Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." - Thomas Carlyle,

He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine life, for his intellect and emotions were clearly separate; he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the state wherin they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family.In short he was twenty-eight and a bachelor.

Wherever you go, you will always bear yourself about with you, and so you will always find yourself.

You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?