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.

Between God and love, I recognize no mediator but my conscience.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

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