I take it as a matter not to be disputed, that if all knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. This seems proved by the quarrels and disputes caused by the disclosures which are occasionally made.

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

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

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

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.