Art is man added to Nature.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.