Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.