The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so vile and low that they are beneath it; and those of the future world are so vast and exalted that they are above it.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.