The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent but Intelligence.

The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

The order of things consents to virtue.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.