To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.