Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

There are two equally dangerous extremes-to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in.

If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.