One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

He who is resolute conquers grief.

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.