No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
To teach is to learn twice.
When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.