Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.