Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.