To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

Common people, whether lords or shop-keepers, are slow to understand that possession, whether in the shape of birth or lands or money or intellect, is a small affair in the difference between men.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.