Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
God protects those he loves from worthless reading.
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.
Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.