Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.