Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.