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If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.