They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.