Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.

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