Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.