Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

For the nature of women is closely allied to art