Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

The entire ocean is affected by a single pebble.