One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.
The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.
Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
A temperate style is alone classical.
Speech is but the incorporation of thought.
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
Heaven is for those who think of it.
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.
Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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