Action has magic, grace and power in it.

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Precaution is better than cure.

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

A world without love would be no world.