Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
Close your eyes and you will see.
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.