Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures.

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art.

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends.