The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

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

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.