There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.