I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Let each of us examine his thoughts