They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.