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 are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

Power is neither male nor female.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.