Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.