The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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

Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.