Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.