Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Brave deeds are wasted when hidden.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.