Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

To make something you have to be something.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.