Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.