A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

A liar ought to have a good memory.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.