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.

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.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which is the science, by way of eminence, of living well and being happy), but all mankind together is making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older. So that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man who never ceases to live and learn.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.