"The Lord gives his whole innocent spirit to the Father and keeps only our own sinful spirit back for himself. In this way he can carry sin as if he himself had committed it."

"Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong."

"Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them."

"Romance is the poetry of literature."

"A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it."

"How immense to us appear the sins we have not committed."

"It is never permissible to say, I say."