We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

Every city is a living body.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Doubt is but another element of faith.

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

Understanding is the wages of faith.