We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use 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.

An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.

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.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?