If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

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