The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that is invisible.