All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Justice is the truth in action.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Space is the stature of God.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
