Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part?

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.