To sing is to pray twice.
Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.