Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it