Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.