Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

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

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

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

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.