Our Virtues And View Spring From One

Piety Is Not An End, But A Means: A Means Of Attaining The Highest Culture By The Purest Tranquility Of Soul. Hence It May Be Observed That Those Who Set Up Piety As An End And Object Are Mostly Hypocrites.

He Who Can Not Learn To Love Must Flatter.

Our Passions Are True Phoenixes; As The Old Burn Out The New Straight Rise Up From The Ashes.

If The Word Is Not Dead When It Reaches The Hearer, He Murders It At Once By A Contradiction, A Stipulation, A Condition, A Digression, An Interruption, And All The Thousand Tricks Of Conversation.

Nothing Is Worse Than Active Ignorance.