A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
If people speak ill of you, live so that no one will believe them.
I've always had a feeling that any time you can experiment, you ought to do it. Because you never know what will happen.
