The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only hu

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

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.