The Intellect Of The Wise

Pity Is Like Eating Mustard Without Beef.

The Question Is Not Whether A Doctrine Is Beautiful But Whether It Is True. When We Wish To Go To A Place, We Do Not Ask Whether The Road Leads Through A Pretty Country, But Whether It Is The Right Road.

It Is With Flowers As With Moral Qualities; The Bright Are Sometimes Poisonous; But, I Believe, Never The Sweet.

It Is A Proof Of Our Natural Bias To Evil, That Gain Is Slower And Harder Than Loss In All Things Good; But In All Things Bad Getting Is Quicker And Easier Than Getting Rid Of.

The Virtue Of Paganism Was Strength: The Virtue Of Christianity Is Obedience.