It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.