The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.