The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
Wine is the divine juice of September.
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.