Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

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

That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.