The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.