The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.