Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

Pride is handsome, economical; pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

Let there be worse cotton and better men.