Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

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

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.