It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.