Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.

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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel but a comedy to those who think.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.

When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.