Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.