No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.
Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.
Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.