The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.