Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

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.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.