God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
The past and present are only our means the future is always our end. Thus we never really live but only hope to live.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Continuity in everything is unpleasant.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.
When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.