I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

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

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

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

Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.

It is not enough to forgive; one must forget.