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

I am glad that I am not a man, for then I should have to marry a woman.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

Anything that happens gradually is always irrevocable.

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