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.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.

Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing.... In short, extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.