There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

As the telescope is not a substitute for, but an aid to, our sight, so revelation is not designed to supersede the use of reason, but to supply its deficiencies.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.