Nobody is so weak but he is strong enough to bear the misfortunes that he does not feel. No man’s religion ever survives his morals. That is not wit which consists not with wisdom. No man shall ever come to heaven himself who has not sent his heart thither before him. That man will one day find it but poor gain who hits upon truth with the loss of charity. Christ saves the world by undeceiving it, and sanctifies the will by first enlightening the understanding. If we justly look upon a proneness to find faults as a very ill and mean thing, we are to remember that a proneness to believe them is next to it. This happiness does Christ vouchsafe to all his, that, as a Saviour, he once suffered for them, and that as a friend, he always suffers with them. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is undoubtedly a much greater.