Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

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

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.