Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing...If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything.

To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.