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

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of truth, and all our feelings are delusions; who knows but the other half of life, in which we think we are awake, is a sleep also, but in some respects different from the other, and from which we wake when we, as we call it, sleep. As a man dreams often that he is dreaming, crowding one dreamy delusion on another.