Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.