What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.