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

I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.

Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion!

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

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

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.

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