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

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

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

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.