We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.