Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.