That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.