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

The education of life perfects the thinking mind, but depraves the frivolous.

Nothing recalls the past like music.

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

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love