From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

What we do not understand we have no right to judge

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.