Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Which is more misshapen,--religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.