Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

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

About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.