The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.