People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.