Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.