Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.

Continuous eloquence wearies.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

Let each of us examine his thoughts

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.