To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.