Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Man is emphatically self-made.

Now what is it that moves our very hearts and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes?.. They have done us no harm and they have no power of resistance... There is something so very dreadful, so Satanic, in tormenting those who have never harmed us, who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power.