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.

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

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

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

Prayer is the life of the soul.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

Morality must guide calculation, and calculation must guide politics.