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.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.