Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

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

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.

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.