Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.