Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.