If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.