God made the water but men made the wine.

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.