To find recreation in amusements is not happiness; for this joy springs from alien and extrinsic sources, and is therefore dependent upon and subject to interruption by a thousand accidents, which may minister inevitable affliction.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything...

The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.