What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

The tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.