Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

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.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

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

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

Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.