Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.