Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would not suit another. And the ways by which perfection is reached vary very much; the medicines necessary for our souls are very different from each other. Thus God leads us by strange ways; we know He wills our happiness, but we neither know what our happiness is, nor the way. We are blind; left to ourselves we should take the wrong way; we must leave it to Him.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.