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.

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

The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.