We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

There is a transcendent power in example.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.