I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

It is the fine rain that soaks us through.

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.