Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.