Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
The more we do, the more we can do.
Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.