Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.