Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

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

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.