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

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Everything that is exact is short.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

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

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.