It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.

Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

Justice is the truth in action.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.