This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

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.

Faith is a gift of God.

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.