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Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

The greatest pleasure in life is love.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Little things are little things; but faithfulness in little things is a very great thing.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

The problem of evil ... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.