When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

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.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.