People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

All our dignity lies in our thoughts.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!