Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.