La recherche de la vérité est la plus noble des occupations, et sa publication un devoir. - Germaine de Staël

O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

There is perhaps too much freedom in Protestantism to satisfy a certain religious austerity, which may seize upon the man who is overwhelmed by great misfortunes; sometimes even in the habitual course of life, the reality of this world disappears all at once, and we feel ourselves in the middle of its interests as we should at a ball, where we did not hear the music; the dancing that we saw there would appear insane.

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.