An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.