Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called a grammar.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

I sought to hear the voice of God And climbed the topmost steeple, But God declared: "Go down again- I dwell among the people."

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.