If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.