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

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

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

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

To understand is to forgive.