The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.