No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.

Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.