"The diversity of language alienates man from..." - Quote by Saint Augustine

“Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.”

“It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.”

“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.”

“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”

“Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.”

“What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.”

“A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.”

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.”

“Least said, soonest mended”