Vanity is but the surface.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

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.