Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom.
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force.
Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is.
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.