Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.