When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.