Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.

By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.