...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.