The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!