An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.