Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
Elegance is exquisite polish.
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.
Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.