Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Whilst no people appears in history without the sign and palladium of a positive faith, without temple, altar, priesthood--that is to say, without a constituted religion--unbelief appears only under an individual form, sometimes proscribed, sometimes tolerated, seldom powerful, and never becoming established as the public and social expression of a nation.

A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.