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.

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Whatsoever is, is in God.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

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.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.