Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

Discover what you are.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.