Imagination decides everything.
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Law, without force, is impotent.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.