Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.