All our longings for what is loving and true reach out into heaven. They put us in touch with angels who are feeling the same way and unite us with them.

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.

It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to affirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence.

Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.