We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

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

No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.

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.

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.