Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.