The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.
God has prohibited despair.
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.
Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
Men are always invoking justice; yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.