Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.