Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

Those who are wholly God's are always happy.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.