The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.