Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.