Space is to place as eternity is to time.
A thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.