The secrets of nature are concealed; her agency is perpetual, but we do not always discover its effects; time reveals them from age to age; and although she is always the same in herself, she is not always equally well known.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.