He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.