Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.