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

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.