We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine – but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
Chance generally favors the prudent.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
Words become luminous when the poet’s finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
Close your eyes and you will see.