God has prohibited despair.

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

Respect is a serious thing in him who feels it, and the height of honor for him who inspires the feeling.

The inventory of my faith for this lower world is soon made out. I believe in Him who made it.

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

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.