That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.