One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

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

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.