We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

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

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.