He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.