Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.