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.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

We never love a person, but only qualities.