Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.