We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

Faith is a gift of God.

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.