God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.

The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.