If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
Piety softens all that courage bears.
Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.
The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.
The law of common sense.
We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.