What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

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

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.