To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.