Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

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.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

All music, even if its occasion be a gay one, renders us pensive.