The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.

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.

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.