Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.