Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Souls are not saved in bundles.