Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Let us confess it: evil strides the world.
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.