(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.