Most geometricians, chemists, mathematicians, and great scientists submit religion to reason only to discover a problem as unsolvable as that of squaring a circle.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.