Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.