The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.

At the first sound of the priest's voice in the vestar-ium she was on her feet and she fired out her amens and her mercies in a stern and resonant voice, timed well ahead of the rest of the congregation as if she were involved in a sort of ecclesiastical footrace.

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

The best way to see divine light is to put out thy own candle.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

A devout man is he who would be an atheist if the king were.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.