Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.