Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.