Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.
The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.