It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.