Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.
Prayer is the life of the soul.
We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.
Love is admiring with the heart. And admiring is loving with the mind.
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.