When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.