You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
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.