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

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

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.