Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Analysis kills spontaneity.
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.
Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.