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.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.