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.

Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

Thought can never be compared with action, but when it awakens in us the image of truth.

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

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 last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

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