In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.