Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.