One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.

Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

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