Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.