If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road.

You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

Got to start by finding it, have we? Can't start by looking for it, I suppose?

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.