We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Beauty can inspire miracles.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.