Custom determines what is agreeable.

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.