All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.