Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.