To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
