We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.

I am a part and parcel of God.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

It is defeat which educates us.

The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.