What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

The best defense against logic is ignorance.