Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!