Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Conscience is God present in man.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.