Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.