"Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength."
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
"Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine."
"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."
"We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence."