Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

All great amusements are dangerous to the Christian life; but among all those which the world has invented there is none more to be feared than the theater. It is a representation of the passions so natural and so delicate that it excites them and gives birth to them in our hearts, and, above all, to that of love.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

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

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.