Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.

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.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.