Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

Labor is the handmaid of religion.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

We are religious by nature.

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.