You doubt because you love truth.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.