Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.