It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.