True morality scorns morality; that is, the 25 morality of the judgment scorns the morality of the mind, which is without rules. Pascal.
True music is intended for the ear alone; whoever sings it to me must be invisible. Goethe.
True nobility is derived from virtue, not birth. Burton.
True obedience is true liberty. Ward Beecher.
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result. Amiel.
True quietness of heart is gotten by resisting 30 our passions, not by obeying them. Thomas à Kempis.
True religion is always mild, propitious, and humble; plays not the tyrant, plants no faith in blood, nor bears destruction on her chariot-wheels; but stoops to polish, succour, and redress, and builds her grandeur on the public good. James Miller.
True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue. Joubert.
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, wretchedness and disgrace, suffering and death, as things divine. Goethe, of the Christian religion.
True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin, and broken from sin. Thornton.