“Of what we think, we speak only at second hand; of what we feel, we speak in the first.”

Drawing a sharp distinction between intellectual borrowing and genuine personal feeling · Imaginary Conversations (as commonly attributed)

• Emotion
• Language
• Sincerity

“Belief in the future life is the appetite of reason.”

Reason's desire for an afterlife · Conversation / essay (as commonly attributed)

• Belief
• Future
• Reason

“Prefixing a preface is like keeping an invited friend at the hall-door, instead of conducting him at once into the house.”

Prefaces as unnecessary obstacles · Preface to The Hellenics

• Books
• Hospitality
• Prefaces