Let us cultivate our garden.
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.
The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.
Dare to think for yourself.
Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.