The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.