Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.