The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.